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• Citizens
• Travel
  • Documents you need for travel in Europe
    • Travel documents for EU nationals
    • Travel documents for non-EU family members
    • Travel documents for non-EU nationals
    • Travel documents for EU nationals and their non-EU family members residing in the UK
    • Travel documents for UK nationals and their family members residing in an EU country
    • Expired or lost passports
    • Documents for minors travelling in the EU
  • Passenger rights
    • Air passenger rights
    • Rail passenger rights
    • Bus and coach passenger rights
    • Ship passenger rights
  • Transport and disability
    • Rights for travellers with disabilities or reduced mobility
    • EU parking card for people with disabilities
  • Driving abroad
    • Hiring a car
    • Driving licence and insurance
    • Road rules and safety
  • What can you take with you?
    • Alcohol, tobacco and excise duties
    • Rules for taking cash in and out of the EU and travelling with cash in the EU
    • Travelling with pets and other animals in the EU
    • Luggage restrictions
    • Taking animal products, food or plants with you
    • Using the euro
  • Security and emergencies
    • Airport and airline security
    • Emergencies
    • eCall 112-based emergency assistance from your vehicle
  • Package travel and timeshare
    • Timeshare and other long-term holiday contracts in the EU
    • Package travel and linked travel arrangements
• Work and retirement
  • Working abroad
    • Cross-border commuters
    • Equal treatment at work
    • Posted workers
    • Work in the public sector abroad
    • Work permits
    • Employment contracts
    • EU rules for working in road transport
    • Liability insurance in another EU country
  • Professional qualifications
    • What is a regulated profession
    • Applying for permanent provision of services
    • Applying for temporary provision of services
    • Professional bodies and language requirements
    • European Professional Card - EPC
    • EU-UK: professional qualifications
  • Social security and benefits
    • Social security systems in the EU
    • Social security cover abroad
    • Unemployment abroad
    • Transferring unemployment benefits
    • If you don't find work
    • Family benefits
    • Survivors' pensions and death grants
    • Standard forms for social security rights
  • Retiring abroad
    • Supplementary pensions abroad
    • State pensions abroad
  • Taxes
    • Income taxes abroad
    • Double taxation
  • Health and safety at work
• Vehicles
  • Cars
    • Buying and leasing a car
    • VAT when buying or selling a car
    • Company cars
  • Driving licence
    • Driving licence exchange and recognition in the EU
    • Getting a driving licence in the EU
    • Driving licence renewal in another EU country
  • Insurance
    • Car insurance validity in the EU
    • Car insurance cover abroad
  • Registration
    • Car registration documents and formalities
    • Car registration in another EU country
    • Car taxes in another EU country
• Residence
  • Residence rights
    • Economically inactive EU citizens
    • Jobseekers - residence rights
    • Pensioners - residence rights
    • Students - residence rights
    • Workers - residence rights
    • Residence rights for EU nationals in the UK and UK nationals in the EU
    • Naturalisation
  • Family residence rights
    • EU spouses and children
    • Non-EU spouses and children
    • Civil unions and registered partnerships
    • Parents
    • Other relatives
    • Jobseeker's family
  • Documents and formalities
    • Registering EU family members in another EU country
    • Permanent residence for EU nationals after 5 years
    • Permanent residence for non-EU family members
    • Registering presence of non-EU family members
    • Registering presence after the first 3 months
    • Reporting presence for short stays of less than 3 months
    • Registering a birth
    • Rules on gender change
    • Buying a house
    • Deregistering your residence
  • Elections, petitions and consultations
    • European elections
    • Home country elections
    • Municipal elections
    • Petitions and consultations
• Education & Youth
  • School
    • Partnering with schools abroad
    • Starting school in another EU country
  • University
    • Admission and entry to university
    • University fees and financial help
    • Recognition of academic diplomas
    • Study abroad and scholarship opportunities
    • Working while studying
  • Traineeships
    • Financial support for traineeships
  • Volunteering in the EU and beyond
    • Volunteering - where to start
    • Practical preparations for volunteers
  • Researchers
    • Grants and jobs for researchers
    • Taxation of researchers
• Health
  • Unplanned healthcare
    • Going to a doctor/hospital abroad
    • Unplanned healthcare: payments and reimbursements
    • Health cover for temporary stays
    • European Health Insurance Card (EHIC)
  • Planned medical treatment abroad
    • Organising planned medical treatment abroad
    • Expenses and reimbursements: planned medical treatment abroad
    • Information points for cross-border healthcare
  • Buying medicine in another EU country
    • Presenting a prescription in another EU country
    • Prescriptions abroad: expenses and reimbursements
    • Buying medicine online
  • Health coverage when living abroad
    • Your health insurance cover
    • Moving to a residential care home
    • Preventive healthcare
• Family
  • Children
    • Parental responsibility
    • Adoption
    • Child abduction
    • Rules on surrogacy
  • Couples
    • Marriage
    • Registered partnerships
    • Unmarried couples
    • Divorce and legal separation
    • Maintenance obligations - support for family members
    • Property regimes for international couples
    • Getting your public documents accepted in the EU
  • Death, repatriation and cross-border inheritance
    • Managing a cross-border inheritance
    • Planning your cross-border inheritance
    • Death and repatriation
• Consumers
  • Shopping
    • Contract information
    • Guarantees and returns
    • Pricing and payments
    • Shipping and delivery
    • Your rights when shopping
    • VAT – Value Added Tax
    • Product safety
    • Energy labels
  • Internet and telecoms
    • Roaming: Using a mobile phone in the EU
    • Accessing online content abroad
    • Fixed line telephone services
    • Using and accessing the internet
    • Data protection and online privacy
  • Financial products and services
    • Bank accounts in the EU
    • Consumer credits and loans
    • Insurance products
    • Investment products
    • Mortgage loans
    • Payments, transfers and cheques
    • Investments in another EU country
  • Unfair treatment
    • Unfair commercial practices
    • Unfair pricing
    • Unfair contract terms
  • Energy supply
    • Access to and use of energy services
    • Contracts and energy consumption
    • Complaints and dispute resolution
  • Consumer dispute resolution
    • Informal dispute resolution for consumers
    • Out-of-court procedures for consumers
    • Formal legal action for consumers
• Doing business
• Running a business
  • Startups
    • Starting a business
    • Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs
  • Developing a business
    • Setting up a European Company (SE)
    • Setting up a European Cooperative Society
    • Merging businesses
    • EMAS registration
    • Free flow of non-personal data
    • Investments in another EU country
    • Registration, permits and licences
    • Running a business in the tourism industry
    • Biotech and biomanufacturing
  • Digitalising a business
    • Setting up a business website
    • Selling online using third-party platforms
    • Setting up an online shop
    • Securing a website
    • Deliveries and fulfilment for online sales
    • Customer service for online businesses
    • Promoting a business online
  • Intellectual property
    • Intellectual property rights
    • Patents
    • Trade marks
    • Copyright
    • Trade secrets
    • Design protection
    • Website domains
    • Database protection
    • Geographical indications
    • Licensing and selling intellectual property
    • Infringement of intellectual property rights
  • EU support tools for SMEs
• Taxation
  • Excise duties
    • Products subject to excise duties
    • Paying excise duties
  • VAT
    • VAT rules and rates
    • Charging and deducting VAT
    • VAT exemptions
    • VAT refunds
    • Cross-border VAT
    • Check a VAT number (VIES)
    • VAT on digital services (MOSS scheme)
  • Business tax
    • Company tax in the EU
    • Taxes on parent companies and subsidiaries
• Selling in the EU
  • Public contracts
    • Public tendering rules
    • Search and bid for a public contract
    • Request a review of a public procurement procedure
  • Selling goods and services
    • Selling products in the EU
    • Providing services abroad
    • E-commerce, distance and off-premises selling
    • Package travel and linked travel arrangements
    • Parcel services
  • Competition between businesses
    • Competition rules in the EU
    • Reporting anti-competitive behaviour
• Human resources
  • General employment terms and conditions
    • Terms of employment
    • Changes to staff contracts
    • Working hours
    • Leave and flexible working
    • Terminating employment contracts
  • Types of employment arrangements
    • Fixed-term work
    • Part-time work
    • Temporary agency work
    • Seasonal workers from non-EU countries
    • Teenage workers
  • Social security and health
    • Registering as an employer in another EU country
    • Paying social security contributions
    • Employer pension obligations
    • Health and safety at work
  • Employee rights and representation
    • Staff representation
    • Inform and consult staff
    • Equal treatment of staff
    • Reasonable accommodation
  • Transport sector workers
    • Civil aviation staff
    • Rail staff
    • Employing road transport workers: driving time and rest periods
    • Seafarers
    • Inland waterway staff
  • Cross-border and posted workers
    • Posting staff abroad
    • Posted drivers
    • Hiring cross-border commuters
    • Recognition of qualifications
• Product requirements
  • Standards
    • Standards in Europe
  • Product compliance
    • Identifying product requirements
    • Conformity assessment
    • Technical documentation and EU declaration of conformity
    • Ecodesign requirements
    • Declaration of mutual recognition
  • Labels and markings
    • CE marking
    • Energy label
    • WEEE label
    • Footwear Label
    • Textile Label
    • ℮-mark
    • EU Ecolabel
  • Chemicals
    • Registering chemicals (REACH)
    • Classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals
  • Recycling and waste management
    • WEEE responsibilities
    • Single-use plastics
  • Food labelling
    • Food labelling rules
    • Nutrition declaration
    • Labelling of food supplements
    • Food additives
    • Health and nutrition claims
• Finance and funding
  • Accounting
    • Accounting for SMEs and micro-businesses
  • Making and receiving payments
    • Cross-border debt recovery
    • Electronic and cash payments
    • Late payment
    • eInvoicing
  • Getting funding
    • EU funding programmes
• Dealing with customers
  • Consumer contracts and guarantees
    • Consumer guarantees
    • Selling products safely in the EU
    • Contracts with consumers
    • Product liability
  • Solving disputes with customers
    • Alternative/Online dispute resolution
    • European Small Claims procedure
  • Data protection
    • Data protection under GDPR
    • Online privacy